Authoritarian resilience and regime cohesion in Morocco after the Arab Spring
This article argues that Morocco's competitive authoritarian regime is more resilient today in certain key respects than it was when the Arab Spring began. Drawing on Levitsky and Way's dimension of organisational power, the article contends the regime was sufficiently unnerved by the
unrest to resort to the use of high intensity coercion as part of its response to the 20 February Movement. The article maintains that, in employing this force successfully, the regime has turned the protests into an important source of non-material cohesion for its security apparatus and
thereby enhanced its ability to defend itself from similar challenges in the future.
Keywords: Arab Spring; Levitsky and Way; Morocco; authoritarian resilience; competitive authoritarian; security forces
Document Type: Research Article
Affiliations: Institute of Middle Eastern Studies, School of Politics and Economics, King's College London, London, UK
Publication date: 04 March 2019
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